7 March 1996

Press Release
RD/858

7 March 1996

Press Release
RD/857

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONDEMNS RECENT TERRORIST ACTS IN ISRAEL

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GENEVA, 6 March (UN Information Service) --The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, meeting for its forty-eighth session in Geneva, issued the following statement this afternoon:

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the screening of "Invictus", in conjunction with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 16 March, in New York:

The States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination met at United Nations Headquarters in New York today to elect nine members to the Convention’s monitoring body to serve for a two-year period, beginning on 19 January.